Excellent personal reflection – thank you for sharing. I see the "margin to fail" concept as closely related to the idea of "surface area of luck/opportunity" (I forget where I first read about it): writing one more article, sending one more application, emailing one more person, for example, can court one additional instance of failure – but at the same time expands the surface area of potential success.
counterpoint: academia is stupid and doesn't recognize your work and talent!!
Excellent personal reflection – thank you for sharing. I see the "margin to fail" concept as closely related to the idea of "surface area of luck/opportunity" (I forget where I first read about it): writing one more article, sending one more application, emailing one more person, for example, can court one additional instance of failure – but at the same time expands the surface area of potential success.
As one of the 50K, I want to say thanks for your persistence! Looking forward to reading the book.